Dragonflies were Linda’s totem animal. They would often fly up to her and hover in front of her, or land on her hand and remain still while she spoke softly to them. Linda could sit by the pond for hours watching a new dragonfly hatch ...
They say that I am dying but I am not going away. Where could I go? I am here. ...
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not so sure about the former. Albert Einstein Sebastian Junger’s new book entitled War, tells of his experience embedded with troops in a remote part of ...
Linda and I go back for a therapy session with our two therapists David and Tom after a 3-month recess. Wow, do we need it. After two months of non-stop guests in our cottage on Maui, and all kinds of emotional dramas, Linda and I are ...
If we look deeply, we see that fear is the linchpin that holds our emotional sense of self intact. Adyashanti Most of us have at least one core issue that we have not fully “seen through.” Our core issues have a way of catching us when ...
Last night I watched a captivating1958 film called Inn of the Sixth Happiness, based on the true story of a British maid named Gladys Aylward (played by Ingrid Bergman), who sets off alone for China in the 1930’s to become a ...
Doing–or not doing–the dishes is a cause for disagreement among many couples. Sometimes the underlying causes are not what we think they are. Last Friday, during a session with our therapists David and Tom (who ...
In 1959, Tsung Tsai, a Buddhist monk, escaped from the Red Army troops that destroyed his monastery, and walked three thousand miles across China to Hong Kong, nearly dying in the process. Years later he ends up living in upstate New ...
The waves are breaking gently on shore as I take my regular walk down Baldwin beach on Maui. The drop-dead gorgeous beach stretches a half-mile before me, with hardly a soul on it. I take in the special color of the water today, a ...
You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don’t know it. Anthony de Mello I love setting ...
